On 5/2/19 9:09 am, Peter Kehl wrote:
Dear Pacman maintainers,
On current 4.19.16-1-MANJARO x64, I had /opt as symlink to /share/opt. I went to install current Google Chrome 72.0.3626.81-1 from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-chrome (either by GNOME's Add/Remove Software, or by sudo pacman -U google-chrome-72.0.3626.81-1- x86_64.pkg.tar.xz). It failed with: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) google-chrome: /opt exists in filesystem
Knut Ahlers, the maintainer of AUR Google Chrome package, responded that the package doesn't check for the symlinks. Hence it's probably pacman.
Have you/would you consider supporting existing symlinks on the install paths, please?
Thanks in advance,
We do not support treating symlinks to directories as directories. They are considered a file. My guess is Manjaro provides the /opt directory in its filesystem package, so changing it to a symlink manually is invalidating your pacman files database. The correct solution is to use a bind mount. Allan